Suriname - Proposals Upon Independence

Here is a quote from the Flag Bulletin about Surinam contest:
"A competition held during 1975 under government
sponsorship, with the intention of developing new designs for the
arms and flag, produced 270 different flag suggestions but only
68 alternatives for the coat of arms. The conclusion of the
commission established to study the question was that most people
were satisfied with the arms in the form that already existed,
but that the flag needed changing. Three of the ideas for a flag
submitted in the competition were favored by the commission.

Original proposal
by Mark Sensen, 11 October 2000

Modified proposal (see below)
by Mark Sensen, 11 October 2000

One was green with a red triangle (its base along the hoist
and its apex at the center of the fly) bearing near the hoist on
the triangle a green diamond and golden star similar to those in
the coat of arms. Although the commission changed this to a
single star of gold, it eventually concluded that the flag was
too similar to that of next-door Guyana.

by Mark Sensen, 29 September 1999

"The other two flags had unequal horizontal stripes. One
was similar to the flag actually adopted, except that it had a
black star on a central white disc."

by Mark Sensen, 29 September 1999

"The other had stripes of green, yellow, red, yellow,
green, with the Surinam coat of arms on a white panel--altered to
the representation in yellow silhouette of the arms against the
red stripe. Eventually it was amalgamation of the star from the
first flag, the stripes from the second flag, and the ratio of
stripe widths from the third flag which found favor as the new
official design."